(April 7, 2017 at 11:35 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(April 7, 2017 at 9:33 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Well-educated, intelligent, and overall thoughtful contributors like Little Rik, Drich, and MysticKnight; for instance.
Lil Rik is loony, yes. I don't think many people can deny that.
Drich is super conservative and takes a different approach to the bible than I do (obviously, me being Catholic). And I agree that he can be very insensitive and has terrible people skills. But I don't see him as the monster that many of you do. As different as he and I are, I do think he has has been thoughtful about his faith, and is educated.
MK is a sweet heart. I don't think he has a mean bone in his body. I must admit I can't understand most of his posts, but as Chad said, I think it's more of a cultural thing. He "writes with an accent", if you will. I don't see a reason to find him uneducated, stupid, or thoughtless.
But there are plenty of theists here that are intelligent, well educated, and thoughtful: Chad, Steve, Road Runner, Ignorant, Ryyan, KingPin (when he was active)...
And this says it all right here. Two different people whom share the same position that the Christian god is real. Yep you both think you got it right so? How is that any different an argument than when Sunnis and Shiites argue over how to interpret the Koran?
Because we live in the west as a bigger majority than Muslims? Is that it? Nope, the further back in time you go in Christian history the more literally Christians took it and the more barbaric they acted. Christians used the bible to justify slavery, denial of women's right to vote, genocide of Natives, colonial conquest of places in Africa and India with very brutal fashion.
But again, why is one party right and the other party wrong. I'd say it is hardly efficient to claim God is perfect and has this perfect manual. If it s a perfect manual then why are you not both on the same page? I would say there is no god and that is why you have an imperfect book that was written over 1,000 years with books left out and the first completed version had to be voted on. Really? A claimed being "poofed" the universe and our sun and planet into existence but took all that time to create a manual you still argue over?
It makes no sense to me to claim "all powerful" and defy that logic by acting as his marketing department and body guard. I'd say if he is all powerful and really did exist, he'd do it far sooner than a mere 10,000 years ago when science knows our species is 150,000 years old.
